Light Markdown Editor

A standalone Markdown editor
What is Light Markdown Editor?
"Light Markdown Editor" is a lightweight, standalone Markdown editor extension for Google Chrome. It provides live editing and preview without relying on a backend, making it an ideal solution for secure, private editing. Built for simplicity over feature richness, it serves as a convenient scratchpad. It supports several preview styles and allows export to .md, HTML or direct printing. Moreover, it uses browser local storage to keep your drafts safe until you wipe browser data. Light Markdown Editor is open source and readily available on GitHub.

Extension stats

Users: 467 ▲ 1
Rating: 4.33 (6)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2014-01-31)
Creation date: 2014-01-31
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 371.71K

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Extension summary

Light Markdown Editor is a live editor for typing Markdown with a live preview in Google Chrome.

lightmd does not rely on a backend. It does not send the content to any external server.

lightmd is designed to be lightweight, not feature rich, while still providing some flexibility as a scratchpad.

Preview supports three styles, None (browser default rendering), Github (inspired), and a custom lightmd style (seen in screenshot).

lightmd allows for export to .md, HTML, and printing directly from the preview frame (must hit the Print button, not Ctrl+P).

The extension stores your content while you type in the browsers local storage. It has 4 "slots" which can be swapped between as you wish.

NB! Wiping browser local storage will wipe the contents stored in these editors!

lightmd uses a JavaScript library for converting Markdown to HTML (markdown-js), which has some limitations. It only supports basic Markdown and does not support inline HTML.

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User reviews

by Joe Myers, 2024-04-19

Hasn't had an update in years but still works fine, and does what it says. I know it's meant to be lightweight, but any chance of syncing the notes with Dropbox or Nextcloud?

Bad support for Chinese, and the theme can not choose black
by 阿狸, 2019-01-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Light Markdown Editor does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Light Markdown Editor has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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